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With how he left QPR and the disaster of managing in Scotland… he will do well to get another job in the UK let alone the championship.

You make your own luck in football. They have a mentality in their team that doesn’t let them lose… it’s why they win leagues titles and we don’t.

To be fair Motherwell were offside on 2 separate occasions leading up to the goal. For the initial free kick then for the goal line scramble.

Even if it wasn’t offside they would have probably got a free kick for the “challenge” on the keeper anyway. Edit // Motherwell were actually offside on 2 separate occasions leading up to the goal.

I mean their form is irrelevant when it comes to playing against us. They always raise their game.

Time for the Scott Wright redemption arc.

Not talking about talent, as ofcourse our lower league teams were objectively inferior footballers. But I don’t remember us having such an imbalanced squad. When Beale talked about finding players with the right character. I genuinely think he’s assessed them on personality alone… their ability to form a balanced team on a technical level was seemingly an afterthought.

I’ve genuinely seen hungover bams play better football on a terrible pitch covered in dogshite. This is dire given our financial outlay.

You get a 10 hour trial if you have ea play. No pre order required. You can currently buy a months membership for 79p. Failing that, as above you need the ultimate edition.

Fucking hate how he says Dessers.

I think my problem with these games is that isn’t about fun anymore. I remember playing FIFA 13 and still having a great time even when losing.(for the most part) On this and the last few FIFA’s even when winning I don’t particularly seem to be having fun. Half the time the goals scored and conceded are fucking rancid and the general gameplay feels like a lottery at times. The more complicated and “real” they try to make it, the more of an incoherent mess it seems to become. Maybe it’s just me. Either way I won’t be rushing out to buy EAFC anytime soon.

Keepers are still awful though. Either save everything or palm it straight back out to an attacker.

Weird glitch playing online seasons. I can’t control the players… AI is literally playing the game for me. I can’t quit out either… I’ve literally to sit here and hope the AI wins for me.

5 at the back i think

Davies has been a brick wall tonight to be fair to him

Fantastic cross

Should have made the keeper work abit harder there.

Yeah they've lost most of their high profile players. Still spent over 60m in the summer though

Completely different Frankfurt team. Trapp and Rode were the only players who played tonight and in the final against us. (edit: also knauff, came on as sub tonight but started against us)

It's Claudio Bravo - ex man city. & Barcelona. He's technically their 2nd choice keeper but he still plays regularly.

Out of all the players available.. that's about as good as it gets. At the same time it shows we recruited extremely poorly.

I think it’s essential Matondo starts. Pace at this level is essential, especially against teams like Betis who will leave space in behind. Previously Kent also showed how important having someone who will run at defenders is… look how many penalties and free kicks we benefited from in our last Europa run. Betis do not like to defend, they will happily concede daft fouls to stop us hitting them on the break.

Claudio Bravo will likely play.

Fair enough, the lack of punctuation kinda says otherwise though.

You can only get the basic level of Ea Play on consoles. which gives you the 10 hour trial you’re talking about. PC has another tier called EA Play Pro which gives you full access to the game, no time restrictions.